Ghost Adventures "Nightmare at the Roxie"

Los Angeles near to the Cecil Hotel and they're here to investigate the mysterious circumstances where a woman slashed her wrists in the Roxie and without the audience realizing.   Christmas Eve 1954 and no one has been able to identify her.  Behind the doors people are afraid to walk into cos of the threats and dangers they experience from not being able to go in.  Zak asks some men from the public if they've been inside it.  One says he's heard of people dying in there.  One of the first things he heard about.  Such as people going in and not coming out.  In 1943  a man Harry Metzger had died in his chair so they couldn't buy their tickets.  

Built 1931 and closed in 1989 and hasn't been used since.  He loves these investigations when the buildings are sealed with the secrets of the past with the lost souls who want to contact them.  He goes through the facts of the woman's death and wants viewers to help them becoming detectives themselves.  A row of seats, a Canadian dollar bill and phone number of cafe receipt were found.  So whose number was it?  After the last show at 5am she was found with both wrists deeply slashed and blood flowed down several rows.  Also found a double edged razor blade she used.  No sound, no one noticed this woman, what were they doing.  They don't know what to expect.  They want to open the "huge gift" they've been given.  "Maybe even from the Devil himself."

Jake takes them inside.  He doesn't feel alone in some parts.  The seal is broken on the theatre and Zak feels as entering into another dimension.  They stand where she slit her wrists.  Why a theatre, not a toilet or somewhere else?  Aaron hears footsteps.  Zak feels there's evil around.  Jake hears footsteps all the time.  He heard a disembodied voice in the toilet saying "hello."  He says he heard the same voice as on the Polterpod "evil."  Was it "evil" or "evening."  She doesn't sound American.  Maybe Brit or speaking through her nose.  Zak gives Jake a recorder to speak with the spirit to give himself closure.  Zak wants the woman to say hello or do something to get their attention.  A voice says something like "...did/hid it"???

Jake takes them to where the hanging suicide occurred.  They don't like it there.  Zak feels exhausted and can hardly stand.  Zak asks if you feel this and a voice comes through on the Polterpod saying "I feel it."  Aaron and Billy investigate the basement and Aaron loses it with the pigeon.  Inside there are more.  Zak says this investigation will be really tense, one of the most intense they've ever done.  He says that a lot.  He feels the effects into the second day.  Billy plays some evidence from the day before.  From the Polterpod, in the hallway and it said "feel it."  They call it an intelligent spirit as it's relating to what Zak said.  Then "Yeah" and this was elongated over several frequencies.  Then a female voice over many frequencies.  "...chance I can help you..."  Also is that another voice under it or interference.  Billy says the final EVP says "Bagans."  I hear "bag it."  There's two voices aren't there, one sounds like "Bagans" and the other sounds like "bag it" too.  Zak adds that when a spirit calls them by name it can lead to a possession.

Billy uses the Paranormal Puck and it says "beside."  Zak feels something in his ribcage and feels cold and numb.  The meter went off.  There was some noise from the stage.  That affected the thermal camera.  It sounded like something rattled the doors.  Billy types on the Paranormal Puck, "memories" comes through as Zak say she has someone to talk to and asks why she did this and what her name is.  They play the audio from the movie *Crossed Swords (1954) he has to ask what it was called.  Bad memory ha.  A ghost light is inside the circle :a lightbulb with a loosely connected DC current.  The audio couldn't be played during the episode due to licensing.  Zak feels like he wanted to cry.  Billysays she said "can" when Zak asks if she can touch the lightbulb.  The lightbulb doesn't get screwed in.  A voice comes through the walkie.  Zak tells her they care about her and her pain.  Something appears on the thermal, an anomaly.  "What is your name."  "Miss" Miss What? "V."  Damn so close and yet no name!

Stand in the centre of the circle.  He saw an anomaly that floated towards the circle.  A black one similar to the one in the Ghost Adventures Housecalls ep. 6  Then he captures it trying to manifest as a stick figure.  They coe to some stairs and he catches a stick figure on the stairs.  Was it recoiling in pain or was it getting high injecting itself.  Zak feels a pain on his right arm as though he's jabbed.  Then reveals a red mark like a syringe mark there.  Zak asks if he got attacked and how the bruise got there?  A voice replies "yes I did."   Zak tells it that it helped him.  Then starts saying "reverse, reverse demand for all doorways, any dimension to be opened to cross into the here and now into this place right now."  Zak feels he's in the basement though he hasn't been there and sends Jay down there.  Where he hears a noise and finds a syringe.  Corresponding to his attack and his connection to the basement.  I didn't hear a crash as Jay says.

An anomaly moves next to Billy as he feels something and then a few more are seen.  Like the dramatic Hitchcock music when the anomalies are shown.  Aaron and Zak argue for no reason.  Billy shushes them and hears a noise.  They freeze and leave to the tension.  Zak asks what three things he just said, Billy says "walk into this realm, walk into this room, walk into our bodies."  Zak dances some crazy seventies dance movement.  Billy says he's channelling spirits here , one does drugs and Zak feels like someone else, his attachment.  That's all he wants to do at this moment.  An X-cam catches an anomaly manifest and vanishes.  A voice comes though .  Will add later when clearer.  A piece of wood falls or is thrown on the stairs.  Zak calls it intelligent Poltergeist activity.  They believe it's the same spirit again on the stairs.

Zak concludes this and their evidence makes this place an area for paranormal research and also for clues into the "hardened questions of our afterlife."  Now stepping into Nick's current area of research re the afterlife in Death Walker.  

*Crossed Swords starred Errol Flynn and Gina Lollobrigida a swashbuckler about a man who fights the medieval law in Italy which states he needs to get married.  This must've had plenty of loud music for her slashing her wrists to be drowned out.  Was she seated alone?  Just added this as it's one which involved swords and thus lots of slashing too.  Did she intend to do it, did she decide whilst watching, though that wouldn't explain the razor blades.  What of the number from the cafe.  Was it really suicide, heck if no one noticed anyone could've done it.  Did she meet someone there?  So many unanswered questions.  

Ghost Adventures "Acadia Ranch Sanatorium"

Zak is in Oracle, Arizona on a dead end road - the oracle didn't help him much ha.  Off the beaten track he comes across some guy and a dead end.  Heading to a sanatorium.  He senses it to be a scary investigation in "a very weird and eerie town."  The sun sets on their location and the others are already there.  So why was he d riving alone now when he doesn't usually do that.  Acadia was built in the 1890's as a ranch and boarding house.  So with the onset of TB a new sanatorium in this location was needed for patients.  They usually left after dying.  They were stored in the morgue until they were buried.  There have been reports of attacks by entities here.  No one's here to meet them.  Zak calls John.  A murder's been reported by the tack room that of a little girl.  The energy due to the murder Zak maintains there's no denying the energy oozing from the building.

Kevin tells them the ranch was built and from 1895-1930 it was a TB medical centre.  Previous owners back in 1943 were experiencing activity too so Zak adds there's been decades of activity.  The ranch had beds all around the room.  He shows them the morgue.  Through the kitchen he leads them to a back room.  Zak turns back as Billy and Aaron take EMF readings up to 5.  Zak feels he's being led by something in the centre of that room.  Billy says he looks different.  He feels like they're reclusive and he feels he's walking into their dimension.  There's many spirits here and they have tape over their mouth and they're not being allowed to talk to them.  He's been having the vision of mannequins and he sees one in the corner.

It's contained all the residual feeling, pain.  A child took his father's gun and shot himself.  He was buried on the property.  The list of events that have soaked this structure of vicious events is endless he says.  Jen hates that room and lost her balance, felt sick and as she tried to leave, she felt punched in the back of the head.  He wants her to go back in the room.  She asks why she was attacked last time.  She can feel it here.  Jeff captures something on her shoulder with the XLS as she feels it on her right side.  Zak feels an energy go through him.  A small figure stands on top of Jen and touches her head.  Zak can't go in that room and steps outside.  

Melissa takes them to the maternity shed where women with TB would have their babies.  Zak intimates their fates unknown.  The Tack House where a small child was murdered.  She finds the building is sad.  The babies are buried everywhere behind the building.  She felt contractions when inside and this continued through the night at home.  They say they can have the same feelings others felt here.  They're showing how they felt.  Her pain gives them insight into atrocities of the dark and evil that happened here.  Sometimes locations affect deeply, they connect in a moment in time when they have the same feelings.  He says the difference is the person she connects with died.  Have to be careful cos of other things that lurk in the building that leave you exposed and once you're in that place they grab you and you can't break free.  Something happening on this property that's dark and dangerous.

Billy captures an EVP of something Zak believes is a dominant male spirit keeping the others under control.  I hear things being thrown and hear voices too.  The recorder was left inside the ice box room.  I hear along the lines of "give me your hand...I feel them come for you...a big chunk here and then...I hear them comin...they're after you."   Zak uses the Ovilus and hears "sh, Am Not."  He was connecting it via an intercom as he wanted to speak through it at basecamp.  Jay investigates the cemetery where the little boy is buried.  Jay finds Robert's grave to see if he can make contact.  Nothing is caught.  He gets emotional.  He didn't get back and wasn't seen throughout the rest of the ep.  Zak says they're going to keep talking until they get answers.  Their X camera turns off by itself and then turns on by itself too.  When there's still full battery in it.  

Billy says Zak should go into the morgue.  The Ovilus hasn't changed from the screen.  He says it's like the dominant spirit was speaking to the other spirits telling them not to talk.  How many are here?  "Stay Five."  The laser tracking camera's been set up in the morgue.  Aaron says he's been touched on his shoulder.  Couldn't even listen to the EVP before they speak over it and Zak interrupts saying he can see a man standing there.  Billy says something rushed him.  Billy uses the Polterpod.  Zak speaks to the innocent spirits here.  He apologizes for whatever was being affected them and by the bad spirit.  He wants them to move something.  Footsteps are heard.  Zak tries to communicate with the dominant male spirit.  He asks if he wants to talk to them?  I hear "Listen."  He asks who he is.  "Don" comes through.  When Zak asks if they're allowed to be here does the voice say "limit." 

Zak locks Aaron in the icebox.  Zak says something hit him with a spear and then he turns aggressive.  Zak sees a shadow figure.  A light anomaly is caught disappearing into him.  Aaron does an EVP session and captures a scream.  Billy uses the flashing light balls again which lights up.  When Billy leaves the ball lights up.  Zak is outside and he wants to use his energy and he says everything is clear here.  Like he's crossed too far into their realm.  He says if you looked in the wall and placed plexiglass there and seeing the emotions of pain, screams, crying.

Billy heads back with the XLS.  A figure comes out of the pram.  Karate chopping Billy and vanishes.  Zak says that's the same man.  Aaron can hear them outside and he says the wall shook.  Then sees someone.  The ball lights up.  Zak gets angry when Billy tells him to go into the other room so he can shoot him.  They get angry by the spirit.  Aaron eats as he's starving.  Another light anomaly is caught floating past the table with the ball.  Zak ends by adding there's so much death at every turn, is a sensation that won't leave us.  Maybe it's their duty to help carry this sadness and help set some of the tortured souls free.

Ghost Adventures Special "Devil's Den Special"

 Zak talks of walking on the ground and of the barbed wire fence near him.  He feels violence and torture Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall: "a playground for the deranged or the devil's playground."  AKA The Devil's Den.  A special ep where they enter an abandoned prison.  One of the darkest entities "we've ever faced."  Opened in 1957 where the Hall housed some of LA's most dangerous youths.  From South Central gangs, closed on July 2019.  Suicide and violent deaths between staff and prisoners.  With lost souls imprisoned.  Downey California 2022 marked their most terrible investigation yet.  The guards and inmates don't want to return here, afraid for their lives.  Andy, former gang member explains how they were beaten by guards, teen dying from a chokehold was reported in the papers.  Was sent to his cell and he was upset so started banging on his door.  He opened the door and was punched in the chest from the guard.  In the CD building he has his cell and he refuses to go in there.  Terrified of what is in there.  He changes his mind.  No one would dare to enter here. 

He finds a chair with his name, or was it someone else's.  Zak: "we're experiencing things we cannot explain."  Jeff tells Billy he saw someone walk past the window in the SHU building which is locked.   'Special Handling Unit' SHU.  They're taken in the building by the guard, Jarett and Jeff explains what he saw.  Jarrett worked there.  The building was for children harming, suicidal, he cut down sheets of potential suicide victims.  His bosses called it 'Devil's Den'.  They saw black shadows in their rooms.  Walter worked in the juvenile hall.  He was seen in the building but it wasn't him.  Jarett believes in ghosts and has seen them since he was little.  The inmates heard voices and spoke in tongues, persuaded to do these things.  Some made pentagrams with their own blood.  Climbing on bed, windows etc.  (See later with Jay.)

In one of the rooms, 10 and 20, were the rooms where he saw devil worshipping by the inmates.  Or it could be vice versa, as Zak says.  He feels something strange in the hallway.  The Trifield metre spikes and the toilet flushes by itself.  The toilets had some mad activity.  He calls these their "downward spiral into total chaos."  Jeff returns inside.  He feels the same heavy weight of this room.  Zak says not to go in there by himself.  Which falls on deaf ears as he heads back in later.  

The Infirmary was the most dangerous and a youth committed suicide there as Walter explains.  Something wonders around like a lost soul.  Room 20 where Jeff was found is where most of the devil worshipping took place.  He felt cold as soon as he got in.  Jarett says the hair on his arms stood up as soon as he walked in.  Zak has a fit of rage as Billy gets spikes of multiple energy.  Zak walks away.  Jarett asks "who's here?" on the spirit box.  Zak feels the wall with his hand, rubbing it up and down.  Is there anything it wants to tell them?  It replies "death."  Zak mentions the children being possessed.  Jeff returns again, found in room 20, which they pass.  Zak smells something rotten as soon sas he opens the door.  Adding Jeff looks like a caged animal.  Zak is taken over by some energy negative and Jay holds him back.  He runs out.  Lauren tells Billy about him and the wall and waving to someone.

Zak surmizes the place feels like it was shut down yesterday and the guards/inmates were afraid of what they're feeling now.  As he says this, his eyes look like he's affected, teary almost.  Accusations of sexual abuse, violence.  Which makes the place different and the negativity is strong.  They speak with Ned, another former inmate with his disturbing experiences with spirits and what he calls demons.  He was here between 2002-2007.  Nothing could have prepared him for what he did here.  A volunteer who doesn't want to identified (though you can still make out her face) tells them she was on the girl's unit.  They wanted to speak and spoke of the guard who watched them in the showers.  They were assaulted.  No one would listen to them and that's why they didn't tell anyone.  She says the guards were possessed and how can their have treated the inmates how they did. 

"This place has taken a part of me and it's something that I can't get back" Ned adds.  In tears.  The paranormal aspect left him with questions.  He was being attacked by dark entities/demons.  Ned needs to enter the building for some form of closure.  He wants to go upstairs but then ends up in room 20.  Zak wonders why here?  Ned is drawn here.  He recalls what happened.  The cell is the 'epicentre' of the activity.  Zak tells him he was guided here and was being affected.  Zak hears a voice down the hall.  Didn't hear it.  As well as seeing something black on the ceiling.  He feels being watched from all around.  Thinks he's been driven crazy.  Upstairs Ned take them to room 13 (yikes) where he was badly affected.  He was told he'd never leave and he was "theirs".  Always feeling dark and cold.  He'd see shadows.  He says there were demons and pure evil.  He prayed a lot.  He'd bang on the door and he wouldn't be helped.  Drawn to the window, he now realizes the church was on that side.

Ned knows he wasn't crazy and many others like him and there were labelled as having mental health problems.  He and a lot of others didn't belong here.  The volunteer is happy this is being broadcast and they now will probably still have nightmares about this place.  Ned "they took my peace from me."  It still affects him.  Others don't have anything to look forward to and not being helped but given medication.  So the staff knew what was happening but they still subjected the inmates to the mental health issues and treatment, many of them didn't even have.  Were they possessed, just didn't care or didn't want to be thought of as insane too.

Zak was deeply disturbed by the events of the previous night.  Aaron stands by the chapel which was Ned's only saviour.  Making him stronger than most due to his faith.  Somewhere to turn to.  When the guards fear the dark entities.  Zak was emotional and he had marks on his left and right shoulder areas.  Being marked with whatever is inhuman.  Changing you forever.  Which is what Ned said.

Night 1 investigation.  Billy found some EVPs.  Ned was crying cos of demons and the recording in the CD ward during the interview with Andy.  "The pain and misery."  "I live here, I did suffer pain."  Jay took photos in the shower room in the SHU building where he catches a dark shadow in one of the showers.  C&D Building and SHU building is their focus on the first night.  Zak saw someone with a flashlight in the building.  A crash is heard.  Zak enters the building with his XLS camera.  Aaron and Billy enter the C&D Building.  Whoever you are and whatever you are he calls them out.  A small figure is seen in the doorway leading him upstairs at least.  He asks why he's here alone - as he usually sends Aaron.  Jarett felt some kid of presence in the stairway.  Zak hears a noise and Jay takes the boom mic in.  Yeah only cos Zak didn't want to be alone.  Zak appears to lose balance or feels he was pushed.

In cell 13 he sits down with the XLS.  Jay goes to the bathroom where he captured the black mass and a tapping is heard, scaring him and causing him to run.  Zak thinks they shouldn't be provoking it and going this far, as an afterthought.  Jay hears a voice in the hallway.  "Here" it sounds like to me.  Then Zak hears the voice too and a tapping is heard from the window behind him.  He's getting dark thoughts in his head.  At 48.08 a breath is heard that Jay says is a growl.  Jay asks if Zak's okay.

Aaron turns on the ITC device and hears a "hello."  A female hello also comes through.  Got a lot of female voices coming through.  Aaron feels like something touched his vest and pulled it up.  Sounds like "you're right" comes through agreeing with Aaron.  Aaron wants the dark energy to talk.  "Hey."  See another female.  Billy asks who was talking and Aaron becomes angry telling him to 'shut up.'  A voice repeats "shut up" too.  Billy becomes angry and makes a fist and wanted to punch Aaron after telling him to shut up.  It's the place making them like that.  Pitting them against each other.  Aaron feels they're surrounded by spirits.  When they leave a black mass hovers by the phone and then hovers above it before disappearing.

At the SHU building they see Jay and Zak at odds with mostly Zak being enraged.  Billy hesitates in going any further.  Jay looks for Zak and he's sitting outside by the wall.  His eyes look strange.  Zak can't recall what happened.  He says he lost time.  After the tapping the room went cold.  Jay says he couldn't move as well.  Jay tells him he's stronger and Zak shouts "it took it from me...it took everything fro me."  That's what Ned said earlier.  Jay tells him to let it go and to let him go.  Billy calls to him and they're disturbed and they don't recognize Aaron and Billy.  Billy says he felt he needed to come here from the other building.  Zak sends them away as he doesn't want to be around them.  

Aaron moves from Billy.  Aaron feels like they're the evil ones and he's the only sane one here.  He's seeing things around him.  Zak says they're okay and next minute something goes inside of him.  Losing track of everything.  On the infrared time lapse camera they capture a moving dark mass, like something rushing past turning a corner.  The third one caught.  Zak calls them to go to cell 20.  On the Polterpod a female comes through.  "It likes you" is what I hear.  There's another female voice underneath this one saying: "stay, say" something like that.  In the room, Billy feels and looks weird and as Zak and Aaron argue over Zak wanting him to get more equipment.  Billy takes the plastic bag and rolls it noose like.  He wanted to strangle Aron with.  A light anomaly is caught.  They spend 30 minutes looking for each other, without knowing each other.  Zak turns up holding a plastic chair.  Probably also why they must've had plenty of riots in the Hall.

Jay tells Zak it wasn't him in the night.  It was real and disturbing.  What happened to them happens every day and making it the Devil's Den.  On the second night they decide what to do.  Their contact told them of the mysterious circumstances  surrounding the demise of the staff.  A female died in the stalls due to an anueryseum.  A guard had a heart attack and paramedics weren't allowed to enter to save him.  Was it the dark entity?  Jarett was traumatized by it.  They answered what caused all this last night.  Tonight they're investigating the infirmary and Jay is left in the J building.  It was the SHU building before the SHU was built.  It's a bad place.  Wouldn't it be safer to have had someone with him.  He really needed two with him.

In the infirmary a motion activated camera detects something after it taps the camera and the camera moves.  A 360 tracker cam will detect motion.  The laser goes off.  Something moved in the hallway.  Something moves and the camera moves round the corner into one of the rooms.  Zak wants to speak with the staffer who brought the planchette into the building.  Aaron rolls a lighted ball down the hallway and it vanishes.  They can't find it and see it in a room.  Thus it would've had to turn the corner by something moving it or picking it up.  An anomaly falls down and touches the ball before making a 90 degree turn.  Zak lies down and doesn't feel well.  The tracker cam moves and follows something into a cell.  Aaron feels something go through him.  

As Zak rolls the recorder down the hallway a light is seen.  They call it a mist.  Aaron feels a head pain and tastes menthol in his mouth.  Using the XLS  Zak captures a figure in the room in one of the cells as though it's in its last moments.  Was this the suicide Vic possibly.  It vanishes and appears again briefly.  Aaron says he feels violated with the spirit waking though.  The first time he's felt like this. The APF Processor is used and Zak asks if it wants to talk to him.  I hear "help" not "yeah."  Zak asks its name.  I hear "I'm Michael" then something else and then "ask him."  Aaron and Billy head to the other side of the building and a woman's voice says "are you Freddy or ready" after Aaron asks what they should do?  

Zak disappears so they head out.  Zak had an experience but wasn't possessed.  He says he's fine.  Felt like he was watching someone die in the cell.  Billy asks if the walkie's on and Zak says why he's trying to say that.  As he's taking away all the attention of Zak being affected.  Yeah cos it's all about you! Jay calls on the walkie!!  Billy heard it in his head Jay's in trouble.  Billy gets worked up and tells Zak to answer him.  Jay is on the ground and he hits something and struggles before asking for help.  One of them affected and not said anything.  Zak doesn't let him back in.  They go inside with the thermal still camera to where Billy and Aaron got the female voice.  There's some sort of a hovering blue figure caught.  Without legs.  

This place forever had a mark on them and the inhuman entities have infested this place.  Their stories will haunt them forever.  Zak says they believe Ned when no one else did.  Adding no one should have to live in darkness and that it will carry on festering here.  

Jay says it's like a prison having its own wall.  "J in the Jay building."  Well he experienced it all right.  In cell 6 he puts the recorder on the floor and using the Ovilus he gets "meet" and asks if it was scary for him in here?  "Yes."  "Hug" comes through and "beat."  Jay captures a light anomaly.  Then hears a crashing sound.  He feels the vibe changing.  Which is how he ended up on the floor silent.  

Coincidence or not but the next morning after this ep aired in the US I had a dream with all of the GAC.  Right down to Billy wearing a T-shirt.  I know he usually does a lot unless it's cold or something whereas the others wear jackets/hoodies a lot.  He was filming and something was affecting Zak.  Then Jay gave me something saying I should try it.  Some sort of liquid and then said it was something like boiled blood and I had to run and rinse my mouth out. Yuk!  Was plenty long but sometimes (funnily enough I remember all my GA/Zak dreams) this one was rather short!  I don't know why I had this dream as I wasn't even thinking of watching the ep as we don't get it in the UK til a week later, so it's pot luck whether I can watch it beforehand.  

Anyhoo just thought I'd add this even if no one's interested.  Since Zak et al were affected in this ep.  I always used to say how Jay doesn't get affected when the others do, most of the time, by anything for some reason.  Then when he was left on his own he was.  I don't know why Zak wanted him to investigate alone re previous night's events.  Since he didn't appear to have any ulterior Zak 'possessed' motives.  Also since they hadn't been in that building before.  But it was uncanny how the messages he got on the Ovilus also led to something dark overtaking him.  No wonder that voice needed hugs.  It's also what Jarett said about the inmates knocking on windows, standing on the bed, banging on the doors.  This is what Jay's pictured to be doing also on camera footage.

What an episode!!